Month: March 2018

The Terror Management theory of self-esteem is an interesting concept. Human behavior, it says, is motivated by the awareness that death is inevitable. The tension — that we want to live and that we will all die one day –creates anxiety. Therefore, we need self-esteem as it serves as a buffer—it helps us to decrease the terror and to alleviate the fear of demise, which otherwise “paralyzes” and prevents us from pursuing our life goals.

I’ve read my fair share of research on happiness, but the book by Prof. Sonja Lyubomirsky was able to offer some new and exciting details. In a nutshell, it attempts to answer the perennial question of why we can never be completely happy. That is, why certain things, which should make us ecstatic– a new …

Building confidence is rarely a “bang” moment. It’s a portfolio of victories—small and big. It’s the idea that we are not static, that we are inching forward, that we are leaning from our mistakes, evolving. Therefore, action is the fuel for confidence.

It’s easy to find reasons we are unhappy with our lives—our looks, jobs, financials, partners, kids, friends. The hard part, though, is to find that one thing that would defy the negativity, that makes us proud. And often, it may be as simple as the goal to do good and be a better person today. …

Self-esteem is about progress. About aiming to do better, to learn new things, to improve. Our worth is measured through our desire and ability to grow, not through how much more we have compared to the Joneses…

Anyone who’s read Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” may be surprised to learn that the book was written almost a century ago. It was first published in 1936 and has since sold over 15 million copies. Not many (if any) books that are 100 years old resonate today with the same fresh …

We all, naturally, want to see our endeavors pay off. No one likes to work for the sake of working—it’s always to achieve something greater, to create, to leave a legacy behind. And while things as luck, talent, abilities, even our backgrounds matter to a point, certain personality traits, which we can largely nurture, and the decisions that we make, have the greatest say in our outcomes.

It’s not always easy to believe in yourself and to stay positive—we all have been there—talking ourselves out of making a change because it requires too much effort and no guarantees of success. Taking a risk is scary—it may be just better to dwell in our current state and hope for fate to smile …